{"id":4138,"date":"2025-07-31T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/spinal-tap-elton-john\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:52:18","slug":"spinal-tap-elton-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/spinal-tap-elton-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Tap Welcome Elton John For Rebuilt \u2018Stonehenge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/07\/Spinal-Tap-photo-by-Henry-Diltz-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Spinal Tap gets a glorious do-over of its disastrous \u201cStonehenge\u201d performance from the original 1984 film <em>This Is Spinal Tap<\/em> during the movie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/03\/spinal-tap-sequel-september\/\">upcoming sequel<\/a>, this time with a little help from Elton John. The artists\u2019 new take on the cut is the lead track from the soundtrack to <em>Spinal Tap II: The End Continues<\/em>, due Sept. 12 from Interscope in tandem with the film\u2019s theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>In an accompanying video, John (wearing a druid cloak, naturally) and his grand piano are seen emerging from beneath the stage to accompany Spinal Tap members David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) during a raucous live concert. This time, the stage prop Stonehenge monument has been built in the proper dimensions (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw&amp;pp=ygUVc3RvbmVoZW5nZSBzcGluYWwgdGFw\" target=\"_blank\">18 feet tall, rather than 18 inches<\/a>) and the band is able to complete the performance without major embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/foo-fighters-new-drummer-2\/\">Foo Fighters Tap Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Ilan Rubin As New Drummer<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/idles-caught-stealing-film\/\">IDLES Record Score, New Tracks For Darren Aronofsky\u2019s \u2018Caught Stealing\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/jeff-buckley-live-footage-doc\/\">Rare Jeff Buckley Live Footage To Screen With New Doc<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As previously reported, <em>The End Continues<\/em> features numerous real-life music stars, including Paul McCartney, who lends a hand on a remake of Spinal Tap\u2019s \u201cCups and Cakes,\u201d and Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who help enliven \u201cBig Bottom.\u201d John also guests on a fresh take on \u201cFlower People,\u201d which in the film\u2019s mythology was a hippy-dippy 1967-era early Spinal Tap single in a Beatles style \u2014 or, prior to St. Hubbins, Tufnel and Guest being christened \u201cone of England\u2019s loudest bands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Spinal Tap<\/em>\u00a0director\/co-writer Rob Reiner announced in 2022 that he and the principal cast of the peerless mockumentary\u00a0were reuniting for a sequel. The plot is based around the now-septuagenarian\u00a0Tap reforming to fulfill a contractual obligation with their late manager Ian Faith (Tony Hendra, who portrayed the character in the original film, died in 2021).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"2WWTzQ-mRFw\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-is-the-track-list-for-the-end-continues\">Here is the track list for <em>The End Continues<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p>1. \u201cNigel\u2019s Poem\u201d<br \/>2. \u201cLet\u2019s Just Rock Again\u201d<br \/>3. \u201cFlower People\u201d with Elton John<br \/>4. \u201cBrighton Rock\u201d<br \/>5. \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Just Not Getting Old\u201d<br \/>6. \u201cCups and Cakes\u201d with Paul McCartney<br \/>7. \u201cI Kissed a Girl\u201d<br \/>8. \u201cAngels\u201d<br \/>9. \u201cBig Bottom\u201d with Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood<br \/>10. \u201cJudge and Jury\u201d<br \/>11. \u201cRockin\u2019 in the Urn\u201d<br \/>12. \u201cBlood To Let\u201d<br \/>13. \u201cStonehenge\u201d with Elton John<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinal Tap gets a glorious do-over of its disastrous \u201cStonehenge\u201d performance from the original 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap during the movie\u2019s upcoming sequel, this time with a little&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3098,6,383,24,3099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elton-john","category-news","category-paul-mccartney","category-pushly","category-spinal-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}